Keeping Agreements
You’re only as good as your word, or you can tell a person by the agreements they keep. Grandparents have the opportunity to model...
Re-Bonding
it’s impossible to imagine that the overwhelming joy and happiness that we feel as a grandparent would ever be threatened. When...
strike While The Iron's Hot
If you happen to have a brief encounter with one of the parents, whether it be via email or a chance meeting in public, don’t wait too...
Humiliation
Everyone handles grandparent alienation differently. For some avoiding help of any kind is a way of coping. It may not be exactly like...
Odds
The odds are pretty close to fifty-fifty that you will be awarded court ordered visitation with your grandchild. The decision rests in...
Authenticity
Susan, Whenever I’m around my daughter in law I feel like I can’t be myself. I am always walking on eggshells, and on guard about...
Opening The Door
A response from a parent is actually a door opener to the pathway of communication. Grandparents may not always like what the parents...
Waiting Until They Grow Up
A grandmother recently wrote that her daughter won’t allow her to see the grandkids, and now it’s been two years. She will be relocating...
Support Group For Grandparents
If you are a grandparent suffering in silence because you are experiencing visitation issues with parents and either can’t see your...
Guilty By Association
When parents fight with each other for custody and visitation over the kids, the grandparents also lose out. We already know that the...
